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Mission Statement

The first Taiwan-Korea Plasma Conference will be held in Taiwan during January 16-18, 2006. The meeting will cover plasma science and technology including but not limited to plasma physics in space, fusion, laboratory, microwave generation, laser-plasma interaction, dusty plasma, industrial applications, and low temperature plasmas. The conference will be held in conjunction with the Annual Meeting of the Physical Society of ROC at the National Taiwan University, Taipei for one day with two sessions devoted to plasmas. The rest of the conference will be held separately in Hsinchu.

In recent years, Korea has invested a great deal of resources in researches on fusion plasma, space science, low temperature plasmas, and industrial plasma applications. In particular, Korea will complete in 2007 the construction of the KSTAR tokamak, which is a 300 million US dollar project. Moreover, Korea is a 10% participant in the 13 billion US dollar ITER project that includes European, Japan, US, Russia, and China). Before the completion of the ITER tokamak construction in 2016, KSTAR will be a major tokamak fusion device for studying fusion reactor burning plasma physics.

Taiwan has diverse plasma groups in space physics, fusion, laboratory plasmas, laser-plasma interaction, microwave generation, dusty plasmas, industrial plasma application, and low temperature plasmas. By organizing the annual Taiwan-Korea Plasma Conference, we hope to encourage collaborations between Taiwan and Korea in plasma research and stimulate Taiwan's research activity in plasma related science and technology. In particular, we believe collaborations in areas such as theories, simulations, modeling, plasma diagnostics, tokamak operations, space plasmas, laser-plasma interaction and industrial plasma applications will be mutually beneficial.

Another important goal of the conference is to encourage young people to enter the field of plasma study and attract new talents to join our effort in plasma physics.